Anyone ever hear of E-Sports?

The Game Room
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E-Sports is apparently some sort of Game hosting company. It turns out their software was slaving their customers’computers and turning them into Bitcoin mines without their knowledge. The articles I have read didn’t make it clear exactly what the company was though. It also didn’t help that I first heard the story on the Radio while driving and they called it “EA Sports” which I am very familiar with and freaked out about until I got home and did some Googling.

I was just wondering if anyone was familiar with them or (hopefully not) actually using them.

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This was supposed to go in The Game Room. Sorry. Not sure how that got messed up.

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“E-Sports” is actually the catch-all term for any video game tournament. And here’s a story that lays out exactly what ESEA (the actual name of the company) was involved in:

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The articles I found referred to the company as E-Sports Entertainment. I guess that’s what ESEA stands for.

But thanks, your link explains better what they seem to do. I guess they provide host servers for Online Play?

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Yes, specifically ones outfitted with anti-cheating software. Hence… irony!